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Lester R. Brown, Christopher Flavin, Sandra Postel

Издател: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc

Now in its eighth year, the Worldwatch Institute's "annual physical of the planet" has achieved semi-official international status. As environmental issues move from news headlines onto the political agenda, State of the World has become an indispensable guide for national leaders as well as concerned citizens on all continents. Charts and

Indur Goklany

Издател: Cato Institute

Until recently, both the American mindset and the American economy have been particularly insular. Larsson, a doctoral student and freelance writer, brings home the new world perspective in this highly personal book about the effects of globalization on large and small companies in various communities throughout the world. A Swede by birth,

Julian L. Simon

Издател: Wiley-Blackwell

This book provides a comprehensive and balanced assessment of the state of the Earth and its inhabitants at the close of the twentieth century. More than fifty scholars from all over the world present new, concise and accessible accounts of the present state of humanity and the prospects for its social and natural environment. The subjects range

Julian L. Simon

Издател: Princeton University Press

Julian L. Simon is the world's greatest contrarian. The Ultimate Resource 2 - an update, not a sequel, despite the title - skewers the sacred cows of environmentalism, population control, and Paul Ehrlich. In the contest between resource scarcity and human ingenuity, Simon bets the farm on the ability of intelligent people to overcome their

Jonathan R. Macey, Henry N. Butler

Издател: The AEI Press

This book explores the effects of current regulatory policies and proposes a radical restructuring of the environmental regulatory authority. The centralization of environmental regulation has led to inflexibility and inertia in the federal government as it attempts to respond to widely diverse problems. That attempt has also placed penalties on